Ub40 Review

Released on 31.5.04 Home Grown In Holland captures British reggae stalwarts UB40 live in concert at their sell out show in Rotterdam, Holland. Filmed at the Ahoy Arena UB40 perform twenty two songs taken from their huge repertoire of multi million selling records, from Rat In Mi Kitchen, Red Red Wine and Can't Help Fallin In Love, Home Grown In Holland also includes tracks taken from their latest studio album Home Grown - my personal favourite being Young Guns.

Home Grown In Holland shows UB40 at their very best, with the band sounding full, rich and on song - perhaps in part because the lads obviously feel that Holland is home from home... I wonder why?! I've never been a big UB40 fan (although I was surprised to realise just how many of their songs I knew), but that's now changed - there' a real quality on display here and I enjoyed experiencing the band's live performance much more than I ever expected... there's no histrionics, this is a quality band being shown at their peak and this concert simply left me wanting more.